S. T.SHUGERT & E. L. ORVIS,
Editors.
“EQUAL AND EXACT JUSTICE TO ALL MEN, OF WHATEVER STATE OR PERSUASION, RELIGIOUK OR POLITICAL.
weJoflersop
TERMS
: $150 per Annum, in Advance.
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BELLEFONTE, PA, THURSDAY, JUNE 26, 1884,
NO. 26.
A
The Centre Democrat,
Terms 81.50 per Annum in Advance
DEMOCRATIC STATE TICKET. |
CONGRESSMAN AT-LARGE
GEN. W. H. H DAVIS.
OF BUCKS COUNTY.
THE ELECTORAL TICKET.
ELECTORK AT LARGE
B.J. McGramm
H. B. Plummer,
DISTRICT ELECTORS
. John Slavin, 15
2 John P. J. Bensendorf,' 186,
. John W, Lee, 7,
. Herbert J. Horn 18
5, Richard L. Wright, 19
B. John H. Brinton, |
Wim Siahlor, 121. Franklin P. James,
22, J. K.P. Duff, |
ZL Joun Bwan,
24. A. B. Winternits,
25. Jub H. Hill, |
Wm. A. Farquer,
A.J. Greenfield,
E
hard Vaux,
George B, Pardy, |
P. K. Ackley,
John P. Levan, }
Bera D. Parker,
E. D Mumma, |
A. H. Dill,
rar SET
. Charles F. Rontsghlor,
. H.M. North,
0, Harry G. Stiles
. A.J. Broadhead, Jr,
12. F. V. Rockalellow, po
i. Bichard Rahu,
14. George H. Irwin;
CoNGRESs is working hard on the |
Appropriation bills, and hopes to be |
able to adjourn about the 3rd of July.
Ex-Sexaror Pomeroy, of Kansas,
otherwise “Old Tom,” has been nomin- |
ated by the Prohibition and ‘Anti-Ma- |
gonic Convention at Chicago for Presi- |
dent. He is a healthy candidete of a
healthy combination. |
rl tae
IT is said Blaine has already two |
brothers, a son, three nephews, two
cousins, and nine of his wife's rela-
tives on the federal pay roll. If elect- |
ed, of course the balance of the con-
|
nection, including the sisters and aunts,
do.
Since the declination of Mr. Tilden
and the meeting of the New York
State Convention, public opinion see ms
to be settling down in favor of the
nomination of Senator Bayard
Gov. Cleveland, and it is probable now
or
that the main struggle at the Nation.
l
al Convention on the 8th of July wil
he centred upon these distinguished |
{custom and prejudice has heretofore |
| and that he be placed on the retired
rivals for the Presidency. Either will
good
Indeed so unexceptionally
are all the distinguished men named
for the Democratic nominations that
it is difficult to have a preference.
The magnificent ability, the unsullicd
public record and gris’ expericace
and pure life of the D ware Senator,
cannot be discounted by any one, and
if the choice fall upon him, we can in-
vite comparison with thé Republican
|
| candidate with pride.
GEN, Winniam McCaspres, well
| known to many of the people of this
county, whom he has frequently ad-
dressed, died in Philadelphia last week.
He was oue of the bravest soldiers of
the late war, serving in the Peunsyl-
vania Reserves in which he attained
high honor only by his courage and
efficiency. His death was the imme:
| diate result of wounds received in the
service, After the war he was a
member of the State Sena'e, and sub-
al Affairs and served with distinguish-
ed ability in that department from
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atable, and some of them kick lustily. |
Among those dissatisfied are the Inde-
|
pendent, Boston Congreqationalist,
| Christian Leader, Baptist Weekly, and |
It
to see our moral teachers open their
{eyes a little to the fact that the “grand
| Chridian Union, is encouraging
|
are not all the “moral excellence” that
[shrouded them in the religious press,
| This is & fair as well as a proper be- |
| ginning, and may in time lead to the |
| knowledge that a Democrat is not a |
{ wild, ravenous animal, preying upon |
the innocents in church and state, but |
a man endowed with great principles,
haviog the interest of both at heart, |
{as the highest object to be attained by |
honest, open, manly and consistent
| conduct. One that seeks honesty and
| fairness in the administration of State,
as he does truthfuloess, sincerity, con-
sistency and piety in the church. That |
is the standard by which a true Dem- |
ocrat may be measured at all times,
et ea—- A —
Joux A. LoGax is now the Repub- |
lican candidate for the Vice Preside n- |
cy on a declaration that “the Repub
| lican party has gained its strength by |
"quick and faithful response to the de-
mands of the people for the freedom
and equality of all men.” Six years
| sequently elected Secretary of Intern: | after the organization of the Republi.
can party John A. Logan supported |
lin Congress the Slave Code bill, “in |
{1875 to 1879. He was a lawyer of | terms,” says the St. Louis Republican, |
will be provided for from the Federal {fine ability, and as a brave warm’ | “more sweeping than slavc-owners
treasury.
— A —
| hearted man, of high integrity, he | themselves were willing to employ.”
| drew around him a very large circle |On January 24, 1850, Hon. John A.
Manose says he “likes Blaine. | of warm and ardent friends who will | Logan said in the National House of
Shouldn't wonder! He liked Arthur, ! continue to cherish recollections of | Representatives :
too, as long as his liking could be com-
pensated by patronage and plunder.
The autumn frosts however, may coo)
the temperament of the great Repu. |
diator and relieve him of the unnat-
ural sentiment now oppressing him as
the result of Blaine's magnetism.
: cp :
AT a meeting of the Norfolk Club
at Boston, Jast week, an attempt was
made to commit this Republican or-
ganization to Blaine and Logan, but
of the first eight speakers, three, in-
cluding the Secretary of the club, de.
clared their intention to bolt the tick-
et. The latter offered to resi
the club thought it might as well
gn, bat
let
apatters stand as they were, and it was
R80 ordered.
the
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OF the
Sedelia Missouri) Demoerat from sev.
letters received by
enty-five leading Democratic editors
of that State, stating their preference
for the Presidency, nearly three-fourth
favor the nomination of Cleveland,
ten want Bayard, while the others are
scattering in their choice. For Vice
President, one-half for McDonald,
while Hoadly, Palmer, Cleveland,
Morrison, Slocam, Butler, and Rose-
cran, are mentioned favorably,
Tar members of the Fenian Broth-
hood at Chicago put no faith in the
leged circular of James Stephens, |
pommending an armed ivasion of |
| “Buck McCandles,” as he was famil-
iarly called in brightimemory.
Tur Blaine editors try to console
themselves by asserting that the bolt- |
ing Republicans in New York, Massa-
}
husetts o, means little,
serious effect
and elsewhe
on the
Mr
Blaine—that he can be elected without
and can have no
result, ro odanger the success of
New York or Massachusetts. Such a
miracle has never yet been performed
in the interest of the Republican par-
ty, nor is it likely to be now when
sailing under a platform of fraud and
false pretense in the lead of a dema-
gogue whom the ablest and most con-
spicuous men and journals of the par
ty denounce as notoriously unserupu
lous, corrupt and unworthy, These
editors put too much faith in the eraft
of their leaders, when they claim even
a chance of success without the aid of
of
solid investigation among the people,
both these States, This is the vear
as it is also the year of reform of gov.
ernmental abuses,
—
Burxsive, the disbursing agent of
the Postcflice Department, recently ar-
rested for embezzlement, it seems was
a thief from the commencement of
his service in that Department several
years ago, and what is remarkable
the immediate successor of two thieves
discharged for their peculations,
Be- |
gland, with aerial accompaniments sides his embezzlement of the public |
the shape of dynamite balloons | funds, he stole and sold, during his |
| “Let me tell you if it passed it
| would put in the penitentiary such
men as you bave in your part of the
country (Northern Illinois) who band
together and conspire for the purpose
of stealing fugitive slaves ; it will put
in the penitentiary such men as you
then
adopt measures and pledge themselves
have who call meetings and
to go into sister states for the purpose
of inciting servile insurrections ; It is
for the purpose of reaching such men
as encouraged your John Brown, and
pressed him on in his treason to the
country; it is for the purpose of reach
ing your irrepressible conflict men
who have engaged, if not directly, in.
directly, in murder, in everything
hat is disreputable, dishonorable, dis.
graceful, and shocking to humanity.
[ understand, further, that pretended
ministers of God have recently preach.
ed the death
Brown, and have held him wp as a
sermons on of John
martyr in the great cause of free
dom, 4
— —
Wnex Gen. Simon Cameron Years
ago, savs Uncle Jake Zeigler, “kicked”
against
Democratic nominations, we
are old enough to remember that it
of the
| Democratic party, “all these indepen.
dents will eventually support the
ticket.” Well, they didn't support
the ticket and the party was beaten.
In a late interview which the corres. |
was said by the ‘wise men”
i
ld party,” aod its tattooed leaders |
‘The policy propoged is directly con-
trary to the views which Mr. Stephens
has all along been known to entertain
and the startling embellishments of
his circular are supposed to be the
work of some “Milesian Munchausen”
ut the other end of the cable,
————
A masoriry of the committee on
Election in the House, reporting in
favor of the seating of Chalmers from
the second district of Mississippi, is a
document somewhat remarkable, but
truthful, if not complimentary, to file
in the urchives of Congress. It de
clares that Chalmers “is hypocritical
# his politics, deceptive in his man-
pers, and unworthy of a seat in Con-
gross, but that be was elected and the
ve are only judges of thatand
ble for the sotion of his
tpon whom the blame
selecting such & man.”
¥
encumbency, carpets and paper be
longing to the Department to one
single dealer, as appears by the books
and checks of the dealer, to the
amount of $21,000. His thieving so
fae ax yet discovered, runs up to $70,
000. That such & state of affairs could
exist for a series of years without dis-
covery, shows a shameless lack of po-
lice management of the Department.
The Navy Department is now making
about the same kind of exhibitions,
only more so, and goes to proves that
a general investigation and renovation
is needed in the whole machinery of
administration, to which the people of
the country should now give their wt.
tention in the selection of honest and
conscientious agents,
Tue religious press, because of their
inate prejudice to Democracy, has
generally thrown the weight of their
influence to the Republican nominees
for office, But it appears the nomina-
tion of Dlaine'is a dose not at all pal-
had with the General, he made the
| same remark in regard to the Repub-
liean kickers against Blaine that waa
made against himself and his friends
thirty years ago, by the Democrats.
Strange coincidence! If the Republi-
can kickers do not support the ticket,
and the party be beaten, the General
can go down to his grave assured of
the fact that “history repeats itself.”
But it may be possible he reasons from
what has hitherto been a known fact,
that Republicans are much more easi-
ly whipped into the traces than old
mocrats were. True, very true.
The General tried “bos rule”
:
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1i31El
| pondent of the Philadelphia Times |
Justice at Last!
The bill for the relief of Gen, Fitz
John Porter as amended by the Sen-
ate has heen concurred in and passed
in the House by a vote of 158 to 81,
and is now with the President for ap-
proval. It authorizes the President
to nominate Gen. Porter to his old po-
tition as Colonel in the regular army,
list ; but to receive no back pay. This
of
shamelessly wronged and traduced of-
ficer
18 all right as a vindication
of high merit and undoubted
bravery, and is, we believe, all that
en. Porter asked or craved, whatever
more he was justly entitied to.
The friends of Gen. Porter, as well
as all other fair-minded, candid men |
throughout the country, will approve
the act which as far as can be now,
repairs a great wrong doce to a gal- |
lant soldier and gentleman, and re-
leases his name from an undeserved
stigma of dishonor imposed through
ignorance and malignity.
— —
An Issue that Cannot Die,
a—————
The Utica Observer, truthfully and
forcibly says: “It is a false impress
Lion that the withdrawal of Tilden eli-
| minates from our canvass the living
issue which the decision of the Electo-
ral Commission created. That issue is
aod should remain as potent as ever,
and will survive Mr. Tilden himself
should the Republican party remain |
in power until after his death.
Every individual, North, South,
East and West, who voted for Samue]
J. Tilden in 1876 has a personal griev-
ance to satisfy. The God-given right
of every voter who supported him in
that centennial campaign was deliber-
ately and crimioally outraged by the
party in power. The instincts of man-
hood, not to speak of politics at all,
command the Democracy to put in its
national platform a plank so eloquent
that it will force every self-respectir Pe
man who stood by Tilden in
1876 10
vindicate himself this vear by helpir
Eg
to punish the criminal.”
It certainly would have been a high
gratification to the Democracy to have
met this issue under the immediate
banner of the venerable philosopher,
statesman aod patriot, whom they elect.
ed and
who, by the foulest frauds and con-
to the Presidency in 1876,
spiracies of a party of men repre
senting the Republican party, was not
But the fail
ing strength of the aged statesman ad
pe rmitted to occupy it
monished him that in jusice to his
party, and the great interest now in-
volved, his duty was imperative to de-
cline the honor so unamiously offered.
This act of woselfish patriotism, un,
paralleled in the history of the party
pot only endears the grand old man to |
his countrymen, but instead of illim’
inating the isue, makes it endariog
with the life of the Republican party.
The frauds canno: be condoned.
——
Souk of the Republicans are taking
credit to themselves for discovering |
in their pational |
and incorporatin
platform the well-grounded popular
opposition to large foreign land hold-
ings in this country. To Mr. Hop
kins, a Pennsylvania Democratic Con-
gressman, is due the first public alarm
sounded on this question, and the first
bill introduced to prevent it.—Lan-
caster Intelligencer,
The same may be said of the pro-
posed Bureau of Labor, also claimed
by the platform of hypocrisy as evi
dence of Republican sympathy with
the loterest of the laboring man,
which was introduced by Mr. Hop.
kine and passed the Democratic House
sometime before the meeting of the
convention,
- EE —— — —
A Logan Reminesocence.
From the Greenburg Arges.
“To hI with Blaine,” sid Gen,
Logan, when accosted by a Leader re
porter at the Union depot, Pittsburg,
two years when the latter at
tempted to interview him as to Blaine's
chances for the Presidency,
Well, that is all right; but Logan
has concluded to keep the tattooed
E
TEAS,
hy
statesman company on the journey.
a
{ Cleveland
| action to the Democratic party.
| the contrary, while
If not Cleveland, Whom ?
The Boston Herald, iu an editoria]
favoring t
Presid
|
dacy
Ne Ww Y«
If he is not nominated, it will be for
no other reason than that the Demo:
cratic party does not want an honest
reformer in the White House, And
if that is its position, the Independe nt
will not aid it.
land for the
SAY the cand
Governor of irk:
Nothing that the Democratic party
has d me, contemplates doing, or is
likely to do, warrants any such state
The
“an honest
House,”
for the Presidency, elect him and put
the White House. If Goy.
-well and good—if another
ment, Democratic party want
White
and intends to nominate
reformer in the
one
him in
just as well and just as good.
If the party prefers somebody else
than Gov. Cleveland, az it has a perfect
| right to do, and will do if it see fit, he
will be
Cleveland, and the latter will not be re
, jected because be is an bonest reform. |!
|
er.
No Independent newspaper, or, so
far as we know, Independent voter,
has undertaken to dictate its course of
On
these elements
have been willing to offer advice and
generally advice worthy the most care-
| ful consideration, there bas been a
disposition on all sides to avoid any-
thing that looked like dictation on the
part of these men who are not Demo-
crate, and who would, under ordinary
circumstances, be supporting the Re.
publican nominees.
tiou is the Herald,
Grover Cleveland 1 a good man,
aod would undoubtedly make a mag-
nificent President.
we may nominate him. Jut there are
other men in the Democratic party
fully as good, equally as hooest, and
just as capable as he t
assume the
| .
1
es and weighty responsi-
the one gre foe n the
at
The National (
wil
fis 11 ¢
monti CAreluliy «
uation lose attention t
mands of the ocension, ad
form, nominate candidates
mit its work to the peopl
; "
tollioer
tl y
nieingencs
in ner
him
2 luis subpena ro tl peed
Merrick it
and trie 1 to get losler
not
will be remembered,
was after a letter written by Dorsey to
the
doubt
the
losler, telling him how to divide
money There is no room for
that Blaine was the friend, and
Democrats on the committee want
bring this out, not because they sup
to the Star
route frauds, bul because they want to
he had, A
Washington special to the Chiesgo Times
pose Blaine was a party
show the kind of friends
SAYS
| It has been understood Vere for the
| last three years, by all persons posted in
the Star rout investigations. that it was
Blaine's influence that procured the ar
rangement whereby the Government
did not prosecute the Parker Salisbury
combination of Star routers, but agreed
to submit the oase of the Government
against them to arbitration, not the first
step toward which method of adjust.
ment has yet been taken. Blaine is re
lated to some of the people in that com.
bination, and aecording to Dorsey him.
self, Steve Elkios knows all that is
worth knowing about these Star route
matters,
There is a good deal of amusement
here over Kellogg's story as repeated
yesterday by both Merrick and Bliss,
that the £20,000 given to him by Price,
tne mail contractor, was a political con-
tribution. Price isa Missourian, and a
son of old Sterling Price, the Confeder
ate General, and isa violent Democrat,
Four years ago he sent General Hand.
oook a feather from a Rocky mountain
eagle which he shot, with which to write
his iosugural address, That he should
have contributed $20,000 to the Repub.
Tan 0% 10 the Repub.
L&
*
deemed a fine joke,
p of
he nomination of Mr. Cleve |
as honest a reformer ar: Gov, |
(al
|
{ fall of coal on Friday morning and in
The ouly excep
For this reason |
to |
Items of Interest
Searlet fever preva
rd county,
cut worm has appeared
Aware o«
ion g
1
rn in Del uoty,
Arthur received the LL. D. de
¢ from Princeton college yesterday,
Francis M irphy will
temp Je
week
John Walk
county, recently
begin a series of
BIC tures in Chicago next
of Romansville, Chester
captured a milk-white
squirrel
Bartholdi's colossal figure of liberty is
the likeness of his mother, rejuvenated
and modified
Mr. Sj
versary will
irgeon’s 50th birthday ann
be the occasion of a jubilee
in London to-day.
Among the new insect arrivals is an
nounced a destructive moth which in
fests the cranberry patch,
Steps are being taken at Pittsburgh
to secure the transfer of the Ft. Wayne
railroad to the Pennsylvania company.
Joseph M. Hutchison, of Logan town!
«hij
, Blair county, recently found seven
Iver watches under a log on his farm.
Grasshoppers are so thick between
som and Latrobe, near White Rock.,
that the Indians gathered fifty bar.
ley sacks full and had a feast.
Riley R. Brink, who has been wanted
in Perry county for arson ever since
1574, has at length been arrested and
lodged in the New Bloomfield jail.
reorge Story, a miner at Tunnel ool-
liery, Ashland, was caught in a beavy
stantly killed.
recovered.
His body has not been
| Cattlemen in Herkimer and Ogeida
| counties, N. Y., are becoming alarmed
{over the incressed mortality among
young eattle. Pleuro pneumonia is said
to be the cause.
Samuel Thomas, who was an inmate
of the Chester county almshouse in 1800,
having been put
again put
there as a waif, was
in the iostitution a few days
since, He is without means of support:
Tames Mertz and others of Kutztown»
nity, who were recently ar
lating the fish laws by ex-
have
in the river,
ted for the same offense.
! 0
of Cherry
ud by lom
I'he horse
len at the same time re
» day or two afterward.
the negro who eloped
eKE ARO with
Jewess, has been
H in
of Larne
who
f Ann Cay
anangh, of Con
the back of a
che
ritien on
ard, in which
e had to tw
in the Courts of Montgomery county,
be jueaths
thing sl brothers, is
She died before she could affix ber name,
and the brothers ask that the
ment be recognized,
20.
instru
~The state min-
convention in session here has re
ceived information from Buchtel, Hook.
ing valley, today that the operators
| have posted a redaction to 60 cents for
| mining, to take effect June 23.
| dent
{ will go out on that date,
(oLUME Tune
ers
Presi.
McBride states that the miners
| Adam Funk, of Lebanon, recvatly
captured a black bass weighing 2 pounds
and 15 ounces. William Swayne, of
Kennet Square, landed one recently
which weighed 4 pounds and measured
21 inches in length and 12 inches
around the girth, Samuel Chandler, of
West Chester, landed a black bass from
the Brandywine which measured 17
inches in length,
The Conneleville coke producers’ as-
sociation on Friday decided in view of
the unsatisfactory condition of trade to
further restrict production by closing
down ten per cent. of the ovens. This
will reduce production twenty-five per
cent, ss fiften per cent. of the ovens
have been idle since the formation of
the pool. They decided to make no
change in the selling price,
A Boston indy is making a presiding
officer's gavel of rare wood and stone of
historical value. It will contain a frag
ment from Washington's tomb, marble
from Coesar's palace in Rome, and a piece
of a torch found in thd wolf's den oo
cupied by General Putman at Pomfret,
Conn, The gavel is to be ued at the
National Democratic Convention, and is
0 be pr od to the snocessful Presi
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